Choe Kwang-ryool

Korean spelling
Hangeul	최광률
Hanja	崔光 律
Revised Romanization	Choe Gwangryul
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Kwangryul
See also : Korean name

Choe Kwang-ryool (born August 1, 1936 in Seoul ) is a South Korean lawyer . From September 1988 to September 1994, Choe was a judge at the Constitutional Court of South Korea .

Life

Choe Kwang-ryool studied law at Seoul National University until 1958 . Choe began his career in 1962 as a judge at the Daejeon District Court and until 1969 worked as a judge at various courts in the Seoul Judicial District. From 1969 he worked as a lawyer . In 1987 he was appointed a member of the Korean Fair Trade Commission and held that position until he took office as constitutional judge.

On September 12, 1988, President Roh Tae-woo Choe, along with Cho Kyu-kwang and Kim Yang-kyun, nominated Judge for the Constitutional Court. On September 19, Roh Tae-woo appointed him a judge at the Constitutional Court along with the other eight nominees. Until the amendment to the Constitutional Court Act on November 30, 1991, Choe was only active as a non-permanent judge, from then on all judges at the Constitutional Court served full-time. After his tenure ended on September 14, 1994, Choe returned to practice as a lawyer.

In early 2016, Choe donated his 9,000-volume private library to the Constitutional Court library.

Awards

On April 30, 1983, Choe was awarded the Order of Civil Merit of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) ( 국민 훈장 ) 2nd class, Meran Order ( 모란장 ).

literature

• Liew Hong-Gu (Ed.): Korea Annual . Yonhap News Agency, Seoul 1993, p. 528 (English).
• The first ten years of the Korean Constitutional Court (1988 ~ 1998) . Constitutional Court of Korea, Seoul 2001, p. 33 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 최광률 전 헌법 재판관, 개인 소장 법률 자료 9190 권 헌법 재판소 기증. In: HERALD 로 이슈. March 2, 2016, Retrieved February 12, 2017 (Korean). 
2. ↑ 「법 의 날」 20 돌. In: 중앙 일보. April 30, 1983. Retrieved February 12, 2017 (Korean). 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choe is the family name here, Kwang-ryool is the first name.